Too Cheerful A Morality Is A Loose

A Person Is Not Merely A Single Subject Distinguished From All The Others. It Is Especially A Being To Which Is Attributed A Relative Autonomy In Relation To The Environment With Which It Is Most Immediately In Contact.

An Act Cannot Be Defined By The End Sought By The Actor, For An Identical System Of Behaviour May Be Adjustable To Too Many Different Ends Without Altering Its Nature.

A Monomaniac Is A Sick Person Whose Mentality Is Perfectly Healthy In All Respects But One; He Has A Single Flaw, Clearly Localized. At Times, For Example, He Has An Unreasonable And Absurd Desire To Drink Or Steal Or Use Abusive Language; But All His Other Acts And All His Other Thoughts Are Strictly Correct.

Although Our Moral Conscience Is A Part Of Our Consciousness, We Do Not Feel Ourselves On An Equality With It. In This Voice Which Makes Itself Heard Only To Give Us Orders And Establish Prohibitions, We Cannot Recognize Our Own Voices; The Very Tone In Which It Speaks To Us Warns Us That It Expresses Something Within Us That Is Not Of Ourselves.

Society Is Not A Mere Sum Of Individuals. Rather, The System Formed By Their Association Represents A Specific Reality Which Has Its Own Characteristics... The Group Thinks, Feels, And Acts Quite Differently From The Way In Which Its Members Would Were They Isolated. If, Then, We Begin With The Individual, We Shall Be Able To Understand Nothing Of What Takes Place In The Group.